Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laid the idea before Director Francis H. Taylor. Director Taylor took fire. He called up the New York Subways Advertising Co. They were even more excited. The Great Art series, they said, would complete the company's subway editorial policy. They offered to donate the car-card space, pay half the cost of the plates...
...they must to all sportsmen, poker and craps finally came to the White Sea League.* Three-day games of five-card stud, with table stakes, no limit, became routine. The poker ended abruptly when one ship won $1,992, leaving $8 as total capital among the other three. Craps redistributed the wealth, but not for long. A few days before the convoy finally sailed, the game became the property of two shipmates. One, a Yale alumnus, owned the dice. The other, a Sing Sing alumnus, had all the money...
Here's the idea. A guy who never heard jazz before meanders into the room for a drink and is assailed with 18 choruses of "Sensation Rag." Ordinarily, he might think "Ki-rist, what the hell is this?" but a little card on the table explains "You are listening to dixieland jazz. . . This is the music of gay New Orleans, of Buddy Bolden and king Oliver, of Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. . . . Only at the Dixieland Room of the Copley Square Hotel can Bostonians...
...week of turmoil no one was prepared to say straight out why the semi-Asiatic, often inscrutable bear had lifted a warning lip at the lion. Guesses were a dime a dozen, but few fitted the known facts. Practically no one believed that Moscow had merely played another card in the complex game of Poland's postwar frontiers. Pravda's bad-mannered belch clearly had some deep but hidden bearing on inter-Allied relations for war & peace...
...almost nothing on himself and gives away about as much money as Clayton will let him get his hands on. He is superstitious (no hats on the bed). The nearest he ever comes to telling a dirty joke, either on or off stage, is his standard wheeze about the card from his girl telling him that she has a room with running water ("You better get rid of dat Indian!"). Lou Clayton, who is not given to sentimentality, describes Jimmy as "the sweetest god damned guy that ever lived." And, as his every accent suggests, Jimmy is a considerable democrat...